Re: Pond water Re: Any suggestions for teaching about the cell?

Sadie

Posted on 1/16/11

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With just a little preparation you can grow an wide variety of live
organisms that will have your students in awe! A little standing water
placed in a container by the window for a few days and you will have
plenty of material for a lab.

If you have United Streaming, or can get the video "The Basics of
Biology: How Living Things Are Classified" you can show some of the
small organisms before they see them under a microscope.

Page 77 on this link will describe how to grow the organisms. Not
messy, easy, and inspiring! apte.com/downloads/ScienceBook_Chapter8.pdf

On 1/15/11, BJ wrote:
> There is NO substitute for having students make their own slides of
> onions, carrots, cheek cells, elodea, even cork (razor thin slices
> of bark of potted ficus looks just like Robert Hooke's drawings!)
> and look at them on the microscope. Borrow a microscope or two
> from the high school so that they can make the connection! There is
> almost no point to a unit on cells without actually seeing that
> things are made of cells. That is what you are trying to teach
> them!!!!
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> On 1/09/11, aggie'swife wrote:
>> We made picture story books about the cell, read the story to
>> elementary students and gave the (elem) child the book.
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>> On 1/05/11, HS biology teacher wrote:
>>> A few things we do at the HS level:
>>>
>>> Draw a picture of the cell on a sheet of bulletin board
>>> paper. Have index cards with the cell part names written on
>>> each. Have students come up (individually or in groups) to
>>> tape the labels where they go. Make it a game. Give prizes
>>> for the fastest. You can also write the cell part functions
>>> on construction paper around the room and have them race to
>>> put the index cards on the right function.
>>>
>>> Copy a diagram of the cell from the internet. Have students
>>> glue the diagram in the middle of a big piece of paper. Have
>>> students to find pictures in magazines to represent what the
>>> cell part DOES. For example, they might find a picture of a
>>> water bottle for a vacuole since it holds water. I have
>>> directions and labels for this activity if you are
>>> interested. (psbowman@iss.k12.nc.us)
>>>
>>> Some other teachers have the students to make a board game
>>> that includes questions about the cell.
>>>
>>> On 12/20/10, Christina wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am a first year grade 8 teacher (I teach English, math,
>>>> science, social studies, art) for the same group of kids.I
>>>> really want my kids to have more fun with their learning but
>>>> its hard to balance my time to plan great activities and to
>>>> cover material. They are lower level --problems reading for
>>>> example. Another issue is a lack of materials? Also is a
>>>> lack of technology.
>>>>
>>>> We had done one set of notes and two worksheets on the cell.
>>>> How do I re-introduce this topic? We need about another week
>>>> of class work to write a quiz on the material and then I
>>>> want to work on an in-class project.
>>>>
>>>> How do you suggest jazzing up the cell and cell theory?

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